Books I Read in February
- The Battle Cry of Freedom by James M. McPherson ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2
- Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2
- The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison (Blackathon Cont. Challenge) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2
- The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison (Reread) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2
- Beloved by Toni Morrison (Blackathon Scifi Challenge) ⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2
- Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
- Not That Bad edited by Roxane Gay ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
- The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor Lavalle ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
- The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2
- An American Marriage by Tayari Jones (Blackathon Cont. Challenge) ⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2
- Heavy by Kiese Laymon (Blackathon Cont. Challenge) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2
- Lagoon by Nnedi Okorafor (Blackathon Scifi Challenge) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
- Binti by Nnedi Okorafor (Blackathon Scifi Challenge) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
- Lagurdia by Nnedi Okorafor (Blackathon Scifi Challenge) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
- Singin’ and Swingin’ and Gettin’ Merry Like Christmas by Maya Angelou ⭐️⭐️⭐️
- March by John Lewis et al. ⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2
- The Color Purple by Alice Walker ⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2
- Let’s Play White by Chesya Burke ⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2
This was a great month, I enjoyed all the books I read with a few that were a little disappointing. However, there was a large fraction of 4-5 star books which prove it was an objectively good month of quality reading. If you look back on my February TBR post, you’ll see another ~5 books or so that I wanted to read, and it is disappointing that I wasn’t able to read all of them. Moving forward, I am going to try and take it a bit easier on my plans because I don’t like stressing about the books I want to read. This is meant to be fun.
March TBR
- The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel
- Still: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Motherhood by Emma Hansen*
- Female Husbands by Jen Manion
- Conjure Women by Afia Atakora
- The Other People by C.J. Tudor
- The Fated Sky by Mary Robinette Kowal
- The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater
- Her Bodies and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
- Binti: Home by Nnedi Okorafor
- I Crawl Through It by A.S. King
- Come Tumbling Down by Seanan McGuire
- The Glass Universe by Dava Sobel
- Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman
- Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit
- Inferno by Ellen Datlow (Backlist readathon)
- Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (Backlist readathon)
- Wenjack by Joseph Boyden (Backlist readathon)
Provided by NetGalley and publisher for a fair and honest review.
*Provided directly by publisher,
This month, I have several e-arcs that I want to tackle before they are published. I’m also doing a reading challenge of 5 more books (to be released), but I still made this list with the intent of being more conservative. The total number of books I’m aiming to read are ~20 books, but many of them are very short. After this month, I am going to try very hard to read even less. I want to feel a bit less pressure to read so I can spend more time writing my blog posts and doing YouTube videos. I have fallen behind on my blog.
